Spring Family Pictures

I've taken pictures of just the kids on several different occasions, but these were our first pictures of our whole family since before Katelyn could even walk. I figured we were about due for some new ones. These were taken back in April. I love the picture of David and I together and the one of Katelyn giggling - it fits her personality perfectly. Pictures by Angela Liddle.

Summer Fun

I'm going to lump what would normally be several different posts into one. Honestly, I can't remember enough worth writing more than a sentence or two for each event, so we'll just call these pictures random summer fun. Definitely a good reason right there of why I should never get behind on the blog again!! I can't remember things!

BUT, to sum things up - we had an AWESOME summer. We were so burnt out from building the house, that we pretty much played as much as possible. It was great! We didn't take pictures of EVERYTHING we did, but we did take pictures of some of the fun at least. We went to the splash parks a bunch, lots of different parks, library trips, made some new friends, Trafalga, Seven Peaks (once), and lots of other random summer fun stuff ... and we slowly unpacked boxes at night after the kids went to bed. While playing was fun, by the end of the summer we (by "we", I mean "I")were ready to get back to a schedule and get some things done and organized around the house. Still lots to do!! But we'll get there - we've got about 60 years or so to do it all, so no rush. At least the boxes are all unpacked! ;)

This was at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens. I believe the Dutch festival was going on there, if I remember right. I remember we had fresh made strupewaffles (spelling?) when we were there, so I think that's Dutch, right? Anyway, they tasted amazing!! The kids only ever want to visit the secret garden and the waterfalls when we go to the Thanksgiving Point Gardens. Can't blame them, those are my favorite spots as well.

One of our many Trafalga trips. Gotta love that pass of all passes! Katelyn, and David were there too, we just stink at pulling out the camera sometimes. Sorry kids!! Kyler rode his first ride ever at trafalga. He looked like this the entire time. No crying, no smiling, no nothing. I felt bad for him, but it was pretty funny at the same time. We couldn't help but laugh ... I know, we're horrible parents.

We went to Gemma's birthday party (their cousin) and the Orem carnival afterwards. Allyson spent the night at Grandma June's house and had fun watching movies with her cousins Jolie and Gemma and swimming in the backyard kiddie pool the next morning.

Father's and son's camp out with Grandpa Kasperson's ward. They went golfing before heading up hobble creek to camp. I wasn't there, but it looks like they all had fun. Not sure where all the pics of the actual camp out are ...

For Father's Day for Grandpa David (with the help of David (my husband, not grandpa David), my mom, and Sarah to try and get kids smiling at the camera), I took a picture of all the grandkids on my side of the family to give to him. You'd think with 3 people helping to get smiles and kids staying where you want them to it would be a breeze - ummm, no. Not a breeze, but we got a super cute picture of them all smiling at the camera, anyway! ... well, that is after swapping a couple of heads from a couple of different pictures. Hey, it works. :)

(left to right): Gemma (my step sister's daughter), Allyson, Kyler, Katelyn, Jolie (my sister's daughter).

Katelyn was super upset when Allyson got to have a sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa June's and she didn't. So, she got to go have a sleep over on a different night. Looks like fun!

More posts coming soon about all of our adventures. I'm now caught up through mid June. Wahoo!!

Getting Caught Up ... Easter

Ok, finally getting caught up on the blog now. Fortunately, I can definitely say my lack of blogging has been because of busy-ness and not because of laziness. LOTS of posts coming! I plan to get all caught up before the end of Thanksgiving break - when life will get crazy again. These posts will mostly be pictures, so hopefully that makes it more bearable and somewhat entertaining. ;)

So, Easter ...
We moved into our new house the week of Easter, so everything was a mess, but I made sure at least the great room was free of boxes and such so we could have a space to celebrate Easter morning. The girls had been BEGGING for a doll house for the last couple of years, but I didn't want to get one til we had more room in the house - there were enough toys lining the walls of their bedroom as it was. So, for Easter we decided the bunny would bring that for them. They loved it!! ... for about a week or so, and now it hardly gets touched. Awesome. Oh, well - maybe our grandkids will love it someday.

We Moved!

We built a house and moved to American Fork! We moved in at the beginning of April, right before Easter. We love it here. We have great neighbors and we love being closer to everything.

Here's a pic of the outside that was taken probably about a week before we moved in. I haven't taken pictures of the inside yet, so sorry to all of you who have been asking to see pics! I'll take some of the inside and do another blog post after I get all caught up on the last few months of our lives on here.

Our house number is blurred out, for obvious reasons. :)

There's a row of tall trees that lines our lot on the left side. They now have their leaves on them and we love them! It's one of our favorite things about this lot. They provide some nice shade in the later part of the day. I'll take a new pic of the outside with the trees in it and post it in the next house pictures post.

Maple Syrup, Anyone?

These shoes of David's HAD TO GO. They needed to go a LONG LONG time ago. He wore them almost everyday ... and he kept insisting they were just fine and refused to buy a new pair of shoes.

Well, I decided it was time to take matters into my own hands.

I decided one morning that I was going to destroy these shoes, so they were no longer wearable. How? Maple syrup.

I chased him around the house with maple syrup, tackled him to the ground, grabbed onto his legs so he couldn't walk out the door. I was DETERMINED. Allyson joined in on the fun and decided to start pouring the maple syrup on his clothes ... somehow I think she missed what the objective was ... lol.

He managed to escape the house and I chased him down the street in my pajamas with the maple syrup bottle in my hand ... and then I had an idea.

I turned around and went back in the house and hurried and got his bosses phone number off of his phone.

After he left for work I texted his boss and told him I needed him to destroy David's shoes so they were unwearable and to use any force necessary to do so. And I told him when he was done to tell David to buy him lunch.

With the personality his boss has, I figured doing something like this would be quite entertaining for him. And in turn would help me out.

Ya, I'm kind of mean sometimes.

I got in contact with one of his other coworkers, too and we started trying to come up with a plan.

Ends up David came home to pick something up later on in the day, so his co workers didn't need to do anything. I played it cool and acted like I didn't really care about his shoes anymore and told him Katelyn had stuffed the toilet full of toilet paper upstairs and I asked him if he could take care of it. He left his shoes in the mud room and went upstairs. While he was up there, I covered his shoes with maple syrup inside and out.

hehehehe >:D

He's been buying the same style shoe since before I met him 8 years ago. I tried to encourage him to try a different style, but he refused.

He went online and ordered the same exact shoes through Zappos. lol

Well, at least they're white, instead of yellow and they don't have holes in them and they don't smell ... yet.

Kyler's First Haircut

Kyler got his hair cut for the first time back in April. He did so good!! The hair dresser was even impressed.

He looks so handsome!!